I guess this could end up as something that is split the same as most other O/T things on here, but here goes...
Without specific examples, I remember the odd newspaper article over the years that generally was being outraged at some change in the prison system / one particular prison. The tack was usually about prisoners having TVs / games consoles / trainers in one case.
I'm sort of intrigued as to what people think their attitude is towards prison, and if they think this might have altered at all now that most people are in lockdown.
I would say for myself that even with things like books, internet access, TV, Netflix, games, and the various other things that we have to occupy the mind that being restricted to home (or, in my case, my new workplace) is pretty tough, particularly mentally, and it's only been a month. That's not to say that I ever thought prison was easy or anything like that, I've always imagined that they are hard places to be and I have less than no desire to ever find out, but I'm not sure I appreciated just how difficult the restriction of movement could be. And they have far more restrictions than we do at the current moment.
Cross fingers, hoping this could be an interesting debate on the above, maybe even the role of prison in terms of punishment versus rehabilitation....
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